The Secret Service is investigating a string of ATMs in Las Vegas which are debiting accounts without dispensing cash. But a similar scam in the city failed after picking the worst possible audience to attempt to defraud. The IDG news service reports that several customers reported problems with ATMs in the Rio casino. Among them […]
…and just when I thought that a rolling building could only be seen in a disaster movie, human stupidity quickly comes to the rescue to prove me wrong.
[Via Digg]
We’ve all done it; a project that we hold dear in our memory and that made us realize that darn, being a geek is pretty darn sexy after all. For me, it probably was when a few friends and I installed and customized our own Telegard BBS, which was running on an old 286, in […]
In the following video, Alain de Botton, author of the highly enjoyable The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in […]
A fun little experiment you can try at home using a simple round plastic container, a strip of cloth, some dry ice, and a soapy solution. Check it out:
In the following video, Bobby McFerrin, best known for his 1988 hit song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”, demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009. [Via Neatorama]
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a new encryption system that allows users to take control over the lifetime of their data. After the user-specified auto-destruct time has gone by, the encrypted data will then become unreadable. If you wish to use the system online, Vanish is available via an easy to use […]
A Dutch court has ordered three of the Pirate Bay’s founders to block traffic to and from its site to the Netherlands within 10 days or face stiff penalties. It caps a week that will have left the owners feeling a little seasick. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg are now responsible for […]
If this isn’t enough to convince you, here’s another good reason why we think the robot apocalypse is quickly approaching. [Via BotJunkie]